All schools
163 of 163 schools indexed so far.
Alcester Grammar School
Alcester, Warwickshire · West Midlands
Out-of-area applicants are only offered places 'if there are insufficient children of the required level of ability' living inside the priority circle first — geography gates access before raw score does.
Altrincham Grammar School for Boys
Altrincham, Greater Manchester · North West
Shares its published qualifying score exactly with Trafford's reputedly least-selective grammar — but council data shows its real cutoff for out-of-area applicants runs well above that shared floor.
Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
Altrincham, Greater Manchester · North West
Same 334/324 score as Altrincham Boys and Urmston, but its own catchment is a plain 8-mile radius rather than a defined postcode list.
Aylesbury Grammar School
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire · South East
Was literally the same co-educational school as Aylesbury High until they split by gender in 1959 — the two still give each other's siblings admissions priority today.
Aylesbury High School
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire · South East
The standard Buckinghamshire 121 threshold, allocated by catchment and distance rather than a strict score-rank — not the county's most selective girls' grammar.
Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School
Rossendale, Lancashire · North West
The current school has never been inspected by Ofsted — a widely-circulated 'Inadequate' rating found online belongs to a predecessor legal entity that closed in 2023, not the school as it exists today.
Barton Court Grammar School
Canterbury, Kent · South East
Its November 2024 Ofsted visit issued no grades at all — a secondary aggregator's '+0.38 Progress 8 for 2025' is actually stale 2024 data, since real Progress 8 doesn't exist for 2025 at any school.
Beaconsfield High School
Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire · South East
Buckinghamshire's test doesn't rank children at all — every grammar school in the county shares one flat pass/fail score, with catchment and distance deciding who actually gets a place.
Beths Grammar School
Bexley, Greater London · London
Score above the borough's annual 'top 180' cutoff and a family gets to choose which of Bexley's four grammar schools to attend — an allocation mechanism this project hasn't seen documented anywhere else.
Bexley Grammar School
Welling, Greater London · London
Ran an IB-only sixth form for nearly a decade, but announced in December 2025 it's dropping the IB entirely and switching to A-levels for every new entrant from September 2026 — a live curriculum transition worth knowing before comparing its exam results to other schools.
Bishop Vesey's Grammar School
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands · West Midlands
Fills its places by three geographic zones in strict order — a closer child who barely qualifies is admitted ahead of a higher-scoring child from further away.
Bishop Wordsworth's Church of England Grammar School
Salisbury, Wiltshire · South West
Despite the Church of England name, faith plays no role anywhere in admissions — the only gate is the 11+ test, and even sitting that test is capped to the 480 applicants who live nearest the school.
Borden Grammar School
Sittingbourne, Kent · South East
One of the first Kent grammars in this index inspected under Ofsted's new report-card framework — five areas 'Strong standard,' two 'Expected standard,' no single overall word.
Boston High School
Boston, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Was once on track for a full merger with Boston Grammar School — the plan fell through when funding was withdrawn, and academy conversion in 2013 made the split permanent.
Bourne Grammar School
Bourne, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Reserves 35 of its 240 places specifically for Pupil Premium-eligible qualifiers — a deliberate equity carve-out on top of the standard Lincolnshire threshold.
Bournemouth School
Bournemouth, Dorset · South West
One of four schools sharing 'the Consortium' test — genuinely unresolved whether it's superselective, since none of the four publishes a score and BCP has an unusually high overall share of grammar places.
Bournemouth School for Girls
Bournemouth, Dorset · South West
Reserves 100 of its 180 places purely for the highest scorers regardless of catchment — a more open, competitive design than its own Consortium partner Poole Grammar uses.
Burnham Grammar School
Burnham, Buckinghamshire · South East
A UK government procurement notice confirms exactly who runs Buckinghamshire's 11+: GL Assessment sets the test, the council administers it, and the qualifying score is written into the contract itself.
Caistor Grammar School
Caistor, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Doesn't use the shared Lincolnshire consortium test at all — it sets and administers its own separate exam, meaning a family targeting both Caistor and a consortium school must sit two different tests.
Calday Grange Grammar School
West Kirby, Merseyside · North West
Its 'Good' Ofsted rating dates to a full inspection in January 2016, carried forward unchanged through two later ungraded visits that explicitly issue no grade — not a recent assessment, despite the most recent visit being December 2024.
Carre's Grammar School
Sleaford, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Went from Inadequate to Good across every category in eighteen months — a fast Ofsted turnaround worth knowing about, alongside a qualifying score the school itself declines to publish.
Chatham & Clarendon Grammar School
Ramsgate, Kent · South East
Rated Inadequate in March 2024 for teaching boys and girls in separate single-sex classes school-wide despite being classified 'Mixed' — fully co-educational teaching only began in September 2024, and a September 2025 re-inspection found Good across every category.
Chatham Grammar School
Chatham, Kent · South East
Admits its first boys this September — the third of three Medway grammar schools converting to co-education on the same timetable, alongside Fort Pitt and Holcombe.
Chelmsford County High School for Girls
Chelmsford, Essex · East of England
Not part of the CSSE consortium at all — it left to run its own three-part test through a different provider, on a scoring scale that isn't comparable to its neighbours'.
Chesham Grammar School
Chesham, Buckinghamshire · South East
One GCSE cohort hit 100% at grade 5+ in English and Maths — and its March 2025 Ofsted inspection sits in an odd transitional zone, using old category grades but no overall word.
Chislehurst and Sidcup Grammar School
Sidcup, Greater London · London
In its own sworn evidence to a Schools Adjudicator, the school stated plainly: 'the vast majority of our students are offered a place due to the distance criteria' — not by how far above the pass bar they scored.
Churston Ferrers Grammar School Academy
Brixham, Devon · South West
Fully selective, but not 'highest score wins' — a large share of places go by a 'Social Justice Priority' category ahead of higher-scoring children outside it.
Clitheroe Royal Grammar School
Clitheroe, Lancashire · North West
Grants no sibling priority anywhere in its Year 7 admissions policy — a genuine rarity among English grammar schools, confirmed by reading the full 17-page handbook.
Colchester County High School for Girls
Colchester, Essex · East of England
Introduced a 25-mile priority area from September 2025 entry that didn't exist before — and its own 2025 results directly contradict DfE on whether Progress 8 exists for that year at all.
Colchester Royal Grammar School
Colchester, Essex · East of England
Its actual last-place-offered score has run second-highest of Essex's ten selective schools two years running — a direct score comparison, not just reputation.
Colyton Grammar School
Colyton, Devon · South West
Devon's only fully selective state school — which makes 'superselective' genuinely unanswerable here: there's no in-county peer or published score table to compare it against.
Cranbrook School
Cranbrook, Kent · South East
Year 9 day places were cut from 38 to just 8 after a Schools Adjudicator ruling — a dramatic, recent change in how hard this route is to get into.
Dane Court Grammar School
Broadstairs, Kent · South East
Runs an International Baccalaureate sixth form, not A-levels — the third school in this index with no A-level results to compare at all.
Dartford Grammar School
Dartford, Kent · South East
Requires most of its intake to score 40 points above Kent's standard grammar threshold — one of the county's genuinely higher bars, not just a reputation.
Dartford Grammar School for Girls
Dartford, Kent · South East
Its brother school requires 40 points above Kent's standard threshold — this school requires none at all, just the ordinary county-wide pass.
Denmark Road High School
Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West
Keeps sibling priority and a soft Gloucester-postcode preference that Pate's doesn't have — a gentler version of the same Gloucestershire consortium mechanism.
Devonport High School for Boys
Plymouth, Devon · South West
Its own admissions policy sets the qualifying mark to be exactly whatever the 180th-ranked candidate scores — designed to fill the school, not to filter far beyond it.
Devonport High School for Girls
Plymouth, Devon · South West
Shares its entrance test with Plymouth's other two grammar schools, but not its admissions authority, PAN, or criteria — three separate legal decision-makers on one shared exam.
Dover Grammar School for Boys
Dover, Kent · South East
Runs its own school-set test as an alternative to the Kent Test — and deliberately publishes no numeric pass score for either route.
Dover Grammar School for Girls
Dover, Kent · South East
A genuine split from its sister school: Kent County Council, not the school itself, is the admissions authority here — the opposite arrangement from Dover Grammar School for Boys.
Dr Challoner's Grammar School
Amersham, Buckinghamshire · South East
Its own admissions FAQ states plainly that the test score 'is not a relevant factor' once you clear the county threshold — genuinely not superselective, despite roughly 200 families a year naming it their first choice for 180 places.
Dr Challoner's High School
Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire · South East
Entirely separate from the similarly-named Dr Challoner's Grammar School — different founding, different governance, different admissions authority, and single-sex throughout unlike its near-namesake's mixed sixth form.
Ermysted's Grammar School
Skipton, North Yorkshire · Yorkshire and the Humber
Shares its entrance test provider with Skipton Girls' High School just as that school's own research found — but the widely-repeated 'pass mark is the 140th-ranked candidate' claim is a stale, slightly-wrong echo of a rule the school has since dropped entirely.
Fort Pitt Grammar School
Chatham, Kent · South East
Admits its first boys this September, alongside two other Medway grammar schools converting to co-education on exactly the same timetable.
Gravesend Grammar School
Gravesend, Kent · South East
Uses a tiered geographic priority system rather than a hard catchment — Gravesham borough first, then two rings of named parishes.
Haberdashers' Adams
Newport, Shropshire · West Midlands
Girls have only been admitted into Year 7 since September 2024 — co-education is rolling forward one year group per year, after 337 years as a boys-only school.
Heckmondwike Grammar School
Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire · Yorkshire and the Humber
Its own two published documents disagree about what the entrance exam actually tests — the statutory policy describes it generically, while the school's own admissions webpage names a specific provider and structure.
Herschel Grammar School
Slough, Berkshire · South East
A 4-mile catchment is prioritised above raw score for most of the intake — the opposite ordering from a superselective school, where score alone would decide.
Highsted Grammar School
Sittingbourne, Kent · South East
Its own admissions PDF gives two different deadlines for the same Pupil Premium form — 31 January in one place, 31 October in another.
Highworth Grammar School
Ashford, Kent · South East
A secondary aggregator attaches its 2024 Progress 8 score to the current year — DfE's own data confirms no Progress 8 exists for 2025 at all.
Holcombe Grammar School
Chatham, Kent · South East
Admits its first girls this September — one of three Medway grammar schools converting to co-education at exactly the same time.
Ilford County High School
Ilford, Greater London · London
The published 104 qualifying score is barely above the standardised average of 100 — a floor to be ranked at all, not a realistic guide to what actually secures a place among roughly 2,500 candidates for 360 combined places.
Invicta Grammar School
Maidstone, Kent · South East
States directly that it is 'not a super-selective school' — and three years of its own admissions arrangements back that up structurally.
John Hampden Grammar School
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire · South East
Its own 2025 exam data shows an Attainment 8 of 75.3 — DfE's official figure for the identical cohort is 72.3, an unexplained gap between two primary sources.
Kendrick School
Reading, Berkshire · South East
No candidate living outside its designated area has been offered a place since 2013, regardless of test score — a wide catchment stretching from Reading into Wokingham, Bracknell Forest, and West Berkshire, but still a real boundary in practice.
Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School
Grantham, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Explicitly confirms its 220 qualifying score is a pure threshold, not a ranking — 'everyone who scores 220 or above is deemed to have qualified for a place, irrespective of the score.'
Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy
Sleaford, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Wasn't founded as a deliberate boys/girls pairing with Carre's Grammar School — it started independently in 1902 after a plan to make Carre's co-ed fell through.
King Edward VI Aston School
Birmingham, West Midlands · West Midlands
Around 7-8 applications for every place: a distinct, higher 'priority score' sits above the nominal qualifying score, and the bulk of places still go by strict rank order among qualifiers.
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys
Birmingham, West Midlands · West Midlands
The school's own results page openly attributes a recent drop in raw attainment to a 2020 admissions change reserving places for disadvantaged pupils — a widened-access trade-off, not a quality decline, by its own account.
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls
Birmingham, West Midlands · West Midlands
The realised admitting score has run as high as 255 in recent cycles — far above both the nominal 205 qualifying score and the 224 priority score meant to mark out the strongest applicants.
King Edward VI Five Ways School
Birmingham, West Midlands · West Midlands
The only fully co-educational school among the King Edward VI grammar schools — every one of its named siblings remains single-sex.
King Edward VI Grammar School
Louth, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
GCSE results keep improving, but its A-level value-added score just fell to statistically below average — a genuine, DfE-confirmed reversal worth knowing before assuming 'grammar school' means uniformly excellent at every stage.
King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford
Chelmsford, Essex · East of England
The confirmed highest last-place-offered score of any CSSE school, two years running — not reputation, actual FOI-disclosed council data.
King Edward VI Handsworth Grammar School for Boys
Birmingham, West Midlands · West Midlands
A modest qualifying bar around the 70th percentile sits behind a defined catchment and Pupil Premium quotas — a genuinely different admissions shape from schools that rank strictly by score.
King Edward VI Handsworth School
Birmingham, West Midlands · West Midlands
A 224 'priority score' plus catchment guarantees a place, but most general-category offers actually go around 216-219 — well above the nominal 205 qualifying floor.
King Edward VI School
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire · West Midlands
GCSE progress here is well above average, but the A-level value-added score is below average for the same pupils — a genuine divergence, not a data error, typical of highly selective intakes.
Lancaster Girls' Grammar School
Lancaster, Lancashire · North West
Shares its entrance test provider with Clitheroe Royal Grammar and, across the Pennines, with two North Yorkshire schools — but each sets its own pass mark independently, so the shared provider is a commercial product, not a shared score.
Lancaster Royal Grammar School
Lancaster, Lancashire · North West
GIAS's single 'Mixed' gender tag hides the real picture — Year 7 entry is boys-only, and girls join only at sixth form, where they've been day pupils since 2019 and boarders since 2020.
Langley Grammar School
Langley, Berkshire · South East
Clearing the shared Slough entrance test only makes a child eligible — up to two-thirds of places are then reserved for a specific inner postcode band, and the school's own policy tells families outside all three priority areas they have 'no realistic chance.'
Lawrence Sheriff School
Rugby, Warwickshire · West Midlands
The only English grammar school found in this project so far with no sibling priority at all — the policy states it explicitly, ruling out what most similar schools grant automatically.
Loreto Grammar School
Altrincham, Greater Manchester · North West
Faith status decides admission before the test score does — and unlike Altrincham Boys' or Urmston, it doesn't publish a numeric score at all.
Maidstone Grammar School
Maidstone, Kent · South East
No school-specific bar above Kent's standard threshold — an internal 360+ priority band only governs how roughly half its intake is ordered, not who gets in at all.
Maidstone Grammar School for Girls
Maidstone, Kent · South East
Quietly dropped its own score-ranked admissions tier last year — 30 of 210 places used to go purely by Kent Test score, until a 2024-25 consultation removed it.
Marling School
Stroud, Gloucestershire · South West
No enlarged Qualifying Group, no sibling priority — the same lean rank-order mechanism as most of the Gloucestershire consortium, minus Pate's extra layer of selectivity.
Mayfield Grammar School, Gravesend
Gravesend, Kent · South East
Ranks applicants by geography first and test score only as a tiebreaker within each zone — the opposite of how a superselective school allocates places.
Newport Girls' High School Academy
Newport, Shropshire · West Midlands
The published qualifying score (192) is a pass/fail bar set by a five-person local panel reviewing sample schoolwork — the real out-of-area cutoff has run as high as 215.
Newstead Wood School
Orpington, Greater London · London
Its own policy admits that no girl from outside the 9-mile priority radius has actually been offered a place in recent years, despite the radius technically being a priority, not an eligibility, boundary.
Nonsuch High School for Girls
Sutton, Greater London · London
Only 85 of its 210 places are open by score alone regardless of address — the remaining 125 are gated by a 5.25km catchment circle, meaning a girl outside it competes for a meaningfully smaller pool than the total roll suggests.
Oakwood Park Grammar School
Maidstone, Kent · South East
Publishes no qualifying score of its own, and its 2024-25 'Progress 8' figure is a self-computed internal estimate — DfE never calculated a real one for that cohort.
Parkstone Grammar School
Poole, Dorset · South West
One of four BCP schools sharing a single test — but its own oversubscription criteria put a Poole postcode ahead of a higher test score for most of its places.
Pate's Grammar School
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire · South West
No sibling priority at all — 'purely down to the test' — and reputed to need a noticeably higher score than Gloucestershire's six other consortium grammars.
Plymouth High School for Girls
Plymouth, Devon · South West
Genuinely pools its ranking with Devonport High School for Girls across a combined 278 places — a shared admissions system found nowhere else in this index so far.
Poole Grammar School
Poole, Dorset · South West
Shares one test — 'the Consortium' — with all three other BCP grammar schools, none of which publishes a qualifying score for any of them.
Queen Elizabeth Grammar School Penrith
Penrith, Cumbria · North West
Cumbria's only state grammar school — 20% of its places go by pure test score with no regard to distance, while the remaining 80% are decided mostly by catchment once a candidate clears a pass/fail bar, a genuine hybrid that resists a single label.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar Alford
Alford, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Currently under a DfE Notice to Improve for financial management — a real, active governance concern separate from (and not reflected in) its educational Ofsted judgement.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School
Faversham, Kent · South East
Fully co-educational since a 1967 merger, tracing its roots back to 1420 — one of the oldest schools in this index.
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle
Horncastle, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Has no catchment at all for eligibility — any child in Lincolnshire can sit the test — but a 'free transport area' quietly decides who wins when the school is oversubscribed.
Queen Elizabeth's School, Barnet
Barnet, Greater London · London
Pure rank order on a combined test score, no catchment, no sibling priority — and even its own published place count doesn't agree with itself.
Queen Mary's Grammar School
Walsall, West Midlands · West Midlands
No catchment at all, but the nominal minimum qualifying score (180 for 2026 entry) sat far below the actual lowest score that secured a place (225).
Queen Mary's High School
Walsall, West Midlands · West Midlands
Shares a regional GL Assessment test with 18 other West Midlands grammar schools, but sets its own qualifying score after seeing the field each year — no fixed bar published in advance.
Rainham Mark Grammar School
Rainham, Kent · South East
Several results aggregators attach a stale 2023/24 Progress 8 figure to the current year — DfE's own page says no Progress 8 exists for that cohort at all.
Reading School
Reading, Berkshire · South East
Its entrance test just switched from a 3-paper to a 4-paper format for the cycle running right now — most tutoring guides online still describe the old version.
Ribston Hall High School
Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West
No published Qualifying Group beyond its own admission number — like most of the Gloucestershire consortium, but structurally lighter than Pate's.
Ripon Grammar School
Ripon, North Yorkshire · Yorkshire and the Humber
The local council, not the school, is the admissions authority here — a genuine structural difference from most other grammar schools in this project, and confirmed directly in the council's own legal determination notice.
Royal Latin School
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire · South East
A Schools Adjudicator ruling landed against its admissions policy in June 2026 — a narrow, still-unresolved compliance issue over how it documents out-of-year-group admissions.
Rugby High School
Rugby, Warwickshire · West Midlands
Its qualifying score isn't a published number at all — the Headteacher resets it every year after consulting a shared regional committee, based on that cohort's strength.
Saint Ambrose College
Altrincham, Greater Manchester · North West
Clearing its own entrance score only makes you eligible — a ten-tier Catholic faith hierarchy, not exam rank, then decides who actually gets in.
Sale Grammar School
Sale, Greater Manchester · North West
Same 334 threshold as its consortium partners, but no separate lower score for Pupil Premium applicants — 'GL only provide one standardised score for Sale Grammar School.'
Simon Langton Girls' Grammar School
Canterbury, Kent · South East
No score-banded priority tier, no radius, unlike its similarly-named neighbour — Kent County Council runs its admissions on the standard distance-only model.
Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys
Canterbury, Kent · South East
Builds a +20-point score tier directly into its oversubscription policy — a genuine superselective structure, not just a reputation.
Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire · South East
Plain catchment residency alone gets no admissions priority at all — only combined with Pupil Premium eligibility does it count for anything.
Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School
Rochester, Kent · South East
Despite its Kent postal address, this school's 11+ has nothing to do with the Kent Test — Medway has run its own separate selection system since becoming a unitary authority in 1998.
Sir Roger Manwood's School
Sandwich, Kent · South East
Several sites still quote a stale 2023 Progress 8 figure as current — the real, most recent DfE figure is meaningfully better.
Sir Thomas Rich's School
Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West
Started life in 1668 as a residential Blue Coat charity school for 20 poor boys — boarding ended in 1882, when the dormitories became classrooms.
Sir William Borlase's Grammar School
Marlow, Buckinghamshire · South East
Allocates 15 places a year by random lottery rather than distance — a genuinely different mechanism from most other Buckinghamshire grammar schools.
Skegness Grammar School
Skegness, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Lowers its qualifying score to 210 for Pupil Premium and Service Premium children — a direct reduction in the bar itself, not just a reserved quota layered on top.
Skipton Girls' High School
Skipton, North Yorkshire · Yorkshire and the Humber
Sits the same entrance test as Ermysted's Grammar School on the same date, but at separate venues with separate processes — a shared commercial test product, not a joint admissions system.
South Wilts Grammar School
Salisbury, Wiltshire · South West
Wiltshire's selective system isn't countywide at all — it's just two single-sex schools in Salisbury, with the rest of the county fully comprehensive.
Southend High School for Boys
Southend-on-Sea, Essex · East of England
83% of places go at essentially the CSSE consortium floor — only the small out-of-catchment allowance requires a genuinely high score.
Southend High School for Girls
Southend-on-Sea, Essex · East of England
By CSSE's own comparison data, the least score-selective of the consortium's grammar schools — its cutoffs sit at or near the floor on both sides of its catchment.
Spalding Grammar School
Spalding, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
The first genuinely superselective school found in Lincolnshire's whole consortium system — its own policy states the qualifying score is dynamically raised above 220 when too many local boys qualify.
Spalding High School
Spalding, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Kent County Council doesn't apply here, but the same principle does — this is one of the few Lincolnshire grammar schools where the council itself, not the school, is the admissions authority.
St Anselm's College
Prenton, Merseyside · North West
A high-scoring non-Catholic boy from outside the local area can rank behind a lower-scoring baptised Catholic boy from within it — passing the test is only a gate, not a ranking.
St Bernard's Catholic Grammar School
Slough, Berkshire · South East
Once a child clears the shared 111 threshold, faith category — not score — decides priority: a child who barely qualifies but is a practising Catholic ranks ahead of a much higher scorer with no faith connection.
St Joseph's College
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire · West Midlands
Left the state sector entirely as a fee-paying independent school from 1980 before later returning — a history worth knowing before assuming continuous state-grammar status.
St Michael's Catholic Grammar School
North Finchley, Greater London · London
In a normal year, only girls from practising Catholic families are even invited to sit the entrance test at all — faith is the gate, and the test only ranks candidates within that already-filtered pool.
St Olave's and St Saviour's Grammar School
Orpington, Greater London · London
No catchment, no fixed pass mark, and around 1,600 applicants for 124 places — the school's own FAQ confirms admission is purely relative rank order each year, with no analogue to a fixed threshold at all.
Stratford Girls' Grammar School
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire · West Midlands
A 16.885-mile priority circle absorbed 110 of 120 places in the most recent cycle, and the general open category made zero offers at all.
Stretford Grammar School
Stretford, Greater Manchester · North West
The only Trafford grammar that never converted to academy status — which is also why its DfE reference number looks decades older than its neighbours'.
Stroud High School
Stroud, Gloucestershire · South West
One undifferentiated county-wide rank order for all 150 places — no two-tier local/national split like Pate's, and no sibling priority either.
Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls
Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands · West Midlands
No catchment at all, and after two small protected categories, every remaining place goes by pure score rank — the standard definition of superselective, even though the school never uses that word itself.
Sutton Grammar School
Sutton, Greater London · London
The shared consortium test's second stage isn't actually shared consortium-wide — it splits by gender into a boys' sitting and a separate girls' sitting, each with its own three participating schools.
The Blue Coat School
Liverpool, Merseyside · North West
Liverpool's only state-selective secondary school — despite the historic charity-school name and a retained chapel, it carries no religious character at all and applies zero faith-based admissions criteria.
The Boston Grammar School
Boston, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Rated 'Needs attention' on Achievement under Ofsted's new framework, and its 2023/24 Progress 8 was genuinely below average — results here run noticeably lower than most other grammar schools in this index.
The Crossley Heath School
Halifax, West Yorkshire · Yorkshire and the Humber
Its entrance test deliberately caps content at the Year 5 curriculum with no reasoning papers at all, aiming to reduce the tutoring advantage that shapes admission at many other selective schools.
The Crypt School
Gloucester, Gloucestershire · South West
Same Gloucestershire consortium as Pate's, but without the machinery that makes Pate's harder to get into — no per-paper minimums, no quantified top-N group, no national quota.
The Folkestone School for Girls
Folkestone, Kent · South East
Ranks qualified applicants by distance, not score — and unlike most Kent grammars, has no sibling-priority criterion at all.
The Harvey Grammar School
Folkestone, Kent · South East
A rare below-average A-level value-added score sits oddly against an Outstanding Ofsted rating and strong GCSE results — a genuine, DfE-confirmed tension worth knowing.
The Henrietta Barnett School
Hampstead Garden Suburb, Greater London · London
No catchment, no fixed pass mark — just a two-round test and a rank order, for one of England's most oversubscribed state schools.
The Judd School
Tonbridge, Kent · South East
No stated policy sets a bar above Kent's threshold — but the school's own published outcomes show the actual cutoff running 60-70 points above it, and rising.
The King's School, Grantham
Grantham, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
Clearing the Lincolnshire qualifying score only earns a place in the competition, not a place at the school — every priority tier is then ranked by score.
The Latymer School
London, Greater London · London
Enfield's only selective secondary school — entirely unrelated to the independent Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, despite the shared name inviting confusion.
The North Halifax Grammar School
Halifax, West Yorkshire · Yorkshire and the Humber
Its entrance exam quietly dropped verbal and non-verbal reasoning entirely for the current cycle — most tutoring sites online still describe the old format, which no longer applies.
The Norton Knatchbull School
Ashford, Kent · South East
Ranks by distance, not score, when oversubscribed — the same structural marker of a non-superselective grammar seen elsewhere in Kent.
The Queen Elizabeth's High School, Gainsborough
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire · East Midlands
A 'Community school' where the Governing Body, not the council, is the admissions authority — a genuinely unusual hybrid confirmed directly in the school's own policy.
The Rochester Grammar School
Rochester, Kent · South East
Ran an IB-only sixth form from 2020, then reversed course back to A-levels from September 2025 — meaning its two most recent leaver cohorts have almost no real A-level data to compare.
The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire · South East
One of England's oldest schools (1562), using the same standard Buckinghamshire 121 threshold as every other county grammar — selectivity here is about oversubscription, not a higher published bar.
The Skinners' School
Tunbridge Wells, Kent · South East
Requires 40 points above Kent's standard threshold for most places — genuinely superselective, but not through any reserved quota for the Skinners' Company's own Freemen, which doesn't exist here.
The Tiffin Girls' School
Kingston upon Thames, Greater London · London
A third of its places are reserved for disadvantaged local girls who clear a deliberately lower bar than the general applicant pool — a genuine access mechanism built into the ranking system itself, not just a tiebreaker.
Tiffin School
Kingston upon Thames, Greater London · London
Even living inside the priority area doesn't secure a place ahead of a higher-scoring child from further away — every applicant, near or far, is ranked against the same 450th-place score threshold.
Tonbridge Grammar School
Tonbridge, Kent · South East
Has run an IB-only sixth form since 2012 — no A-levels to compare at all, until a funding-driven switch starting September 2026.
Torquay Boys' Grammar School
Torquay, Devon · South West
No catchment, no sibling priority, pure rank order — but only about 1.8 applications per place, which is a mild oversubscription ratio by this index's own benchmark for calling a school superselective.
Torquay Girls' Grammar School
Torquay, Devon · South West
Its own admissions criteria have visibly narrowed year over year — catchment priority, then sibling priority, then staff-child priority, each dropped in a successive policy.
Townley Grammar School
Bexleyheath, Greater London · London
Distance from school, not raw test score, is what actually decides most places here — the opposite of the borough's own cross-school 'top 180' band, which does rank by score alone.
Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School
Tunbridge Wells, Kent · South East
Almost all of its places go by home-to-school distance, not score — the opposite mechanism from Kent's recognised superselectives.
Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys
Tunbridge Wells, Kent · South East
The school itself says its Kent Test score 'is not relevant for admission' beyond qualifying — a genuine Community school where Kent County Council, not the school, is the admissions authority.
Upton Court Grammar School
Slough, Berkshire · South East
Reserves priority places for children at two specific named feeder schools, Foxborough Primary and Trevelyan Middle — a criterion none of the other three Slough Consortium schools in this project share.
Upton Hall School FCJ
Upton, Merseyside · North West
All six of its oversubscription categories are defined by care status or by being Catholic or seeking a Catholic education — there's no generic 'any other qualified applicant' category at all, however high a non-Catholic girl scores.
Urmston Grammar Academy
Urmston, Greater Manchester · North West
Same published score as Altrincham Boys, but the council's own outcomes data shows the two schools' realized cutoffs pull apart once you look past the shared floor.
Wallington County Grammar School
Wallington, Greater London · London
Shares its first-stage test with six Sutton schools, but its second-stage exam only with two others — the boys' schools, not the full grammar consortium families might assume.
Wallington High School for Girls
Wallington, Greater London · London
No published pass mark exists by design — the school's own policy states it 'is not possible to state a pass mark in advance,' since each participating school sets its own threshold only after marking.
Weald of Kent Grammar School
Tonbridge, Kent · South East
Just abolished its own catchment area entirely — the current admissions cycle ranks purely by distance, with no postcode zone at all.
West Kirby Grammar School
West Kirby, Merseyside · North West
60% of places remaining after priority categories go simply to whoever lives closest — test score only decides whatever is left over, the reverse of a superselective's priorities.
Westcliff High School for Boys
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex · East of England
One of the more accessible CSSE schools for local boys, but its out-of-catchment cutoff is the second-highest in the whole consortium.
Westcliff High School for Girls
Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex · East of England
Barely clears the consortium floor for local applicants, but the out-of-catchment cutoff runs 40 points higher — two very different schools depending on your postcode.
Wilmington Grammar School for Boys
Dartford, Kent · South East
Mostly not superselective — but 18 of its 180 places are a genuine score-banded 'Governor Places' category, ranked purely by exceptional Kent Test performance.
Wilmington Grammar School for Girls
Dartford, Kent · South East
GCSE results are well above national averages, but the same cohort's A-level outcomes were officially rated 'below average' by DfE's own value-added measure — a real, statistically significant contrast worth knowing before choosing a sixth form.
Wilson's School
Wallington, Greater London · London
83% of its places go by pure rank order across a shared six-school test consortium, in which Greenshaw High School also participates — but only for a limited ability stream, not full grammar admission.
Wirral Grammar School for Boys
Bebington, Merseyside · North West
Reaching the required test standard only makes a boy eligible — up to 30 places then go to looked-after and disadvantaged children first, and most remaining places by siblings and staff status before score matters again.
Wirral Grammar School for Girls
Bebington, Merseyside · North West
The consortium's entrance test provider just switched from GL Assessment to Quest Assessments — many tutoring sites online still describe the old provider, and any qualifying-score figure quoted from them is likely stale.
Wolverhampton Girls' High School
Wolverhampton, West Midlands · West Midlands
No catchment, and places are allocated in strict order of merit by test score — the clearest superselective structure found in this West Midlands batch, confirmed directly from the school's own policy.
Woodford County High School
Woodford Green, Greater London · London
The council's own admissions document states plainly that no out-of-catchment child has been offered a place in the last ten years — an official, quantified soft ceiling rarely stated this directly elsewhere.
Wycombe High School
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire · South East
Gives sibling priority to sisters of boys at John Hampden Grammar School — the two schools are formally paired, unlike the third High Wycombe grammar school, Royal Grammar School.